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Understanding Sexual Serial Killing
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Why do some people engage in serial killing for sexual pleasure? This book considers the phenomenon of sexual serial killing from the perspective of motivation theory, as advanced in psychology and neuroscience. By examining biological, psychological and social determinants, it develops a model of sexual killing that integrates widely dispersed existing literature. The first part of the book reviews scientific data and theories, while the second part presents biographical sketches of 80 sexual killers and links their early development and later killing to current theoretical understanding. The book examines cases of serial killers from the USA, Western Europe, Iran, Australia and South Africa, and it also includes an account of killers from the USSR, made available to non-Russian speakers for the first time. Deliberately written to avoid jargon, Understanding Sexual Serial Killing is accessible to students, scholars and professionals across psychology, sociology, forensic science and law.
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Some sexual serial killers report ambivalence in their behavior.
“Some killers report ambivalence in their behavior, while escalation from relatively less serious behavior (e. g. voyeurism, exhibitionism), through rape, to serial lust killing is common amongst them (Toates and Coschug-Toates, 2022).”
From A motivation model of sex addiction – Relevance to the controversy over the concept (2022) · cites this paper as Toates and Coschug-Toates, 2022
Escalation from relatively less serious behavior (e.g. voyeurism, exhibitionism), through rape, to serial lust killing is common amongst sexual serial killers.
“escalation from relatively less serious behavior (e. g. voyeurism, exhibitionism), through rape, to serial lust killing is common amongst them (Toates and Coschug-Toates, 2022).”
From A motivation model of sex addiction – Relevance to the controversy over the concept (2022) · cites this paper as Toates and Coschug-Toates, 2022
Some features of sexual serial killing suggest an underlying addiction.
“Some features of sexual serial killing suggest an underlying addiction.”
From A motivation model of sex addiction – Relevance to the controversy over the concept (2022) · cites this paper as Toates and Coschug-Toates, 2022
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A motivation model of sex addiction – Relevance to the controversy over the concept
Toates, F. (2022) · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104872 · Cited by 25
“Some killers report ambivalence in their behavior, while escalation from relatively less serious behavior (e. g. voyeurism, exhibitionism), through rape, to serial lust killing is common amongst them (Toates and Coschug-Toates, 2022).”
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- Authors
- Toates, F., & Coschug-Toates, O.
- Affiliations
- The Open University (GB)
- Venue
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2022-05-26
- OpenAlex
- W3161248266
- Cited by
- 5
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2
- FWCI
- 2.55
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Open Research Online - ORO (The Open University) (submittedVersion)
- Open Research Online (The Open University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Decadence, Literature, and Society
- Keywords
- serial killers, sexual homicide, motivation theories, social determinants of violence, biographical development
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